MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual page 229

You need to remove a single user from a role
If you are using Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) to manage users, you can remove an
individual user from a role or you can reassign that user to a different role.
To learn more, see
If you are not using CPS to manage users, Contribute does not support the removal of a single
user from a role. If you need to remove a single user from a role, do the following:
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Delete that user's connection from their personal copy of Contribute. As an added measure,
your organizations's network authentication can be configured to prevent the user from having
read/write access to the website.
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Rename the role and redistribute it to the users you want to include, and then delete the
old role.
To learn more, see
You need to override a file checkout
If a user has a page open for editing, Contribute creates a lock file (identified by a .lck extension)
that prevents other users from editing that page. In the following instances, you may need to
delete a lock file to allow another user to edit such a page:
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A user who no longer works for your organization has left a file in a locked state on the server.
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A web administrator or other web professional has locked (checked out) the page using
Dreamweaver MX and has left the page in a locked state.
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A system error or other anomaly is preventing a user from checking in a page that they no
longer want to edit.
Before overriding a checked out page in Contribute, ensure that the person who last worked with
the page really is finished working with it and cannot unlock the page using Contribute or
Dreamweaver.
To delete a lock file:
Using Contribute, browse to the page you want to unlock.
1.
At the end of the page's URL, append the .lck extension to the filename in the Contribute
2.
browser such as www.mysite.com/index.htm.lck.
Contribute displays the File Placeholder Page.
3.
The File Placeholder Page appears when Contribute encounters a file type that it can't open.
Because the Contribute lock file is of a special type, Contribute cannot display it.
Select File > Delete Page.
4.
Note: This menu item is disabled if you do not have permission to delete pages from your website.
If this is the case, you must enable file deletion for the user's permission group. For more
information, see
An alert asks whether you are certain that you want to delete the file.
"Removing users from sites managed by CPS" on page
"Creating Contribute roles" on page
"Setting folder and file access settings" on page
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